Sting - This War tab

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Intro: EmC
You've got the mouth of a she wolf
Am
Inside the mask of an innocent lamb
Em
You say your heart is all compassion
Dsus2/F#G
But there's just a flat line on your cardiogram
AmC
Yet you always made a profit baby
Em
If it was a famine or a feast
C
Yes, I'm the soul of indiscretion,
Am
I was cursed with x-ray vision,
Em
I could see right through all the lies you told,
Dsus2/F#G
When you smiled for the television
AmC
And you can see the coming battle
Em
You pray the drums will never cease
AmC
And you may win this war that's coming
Em
But would you tolerate the peace?
DGCAm
OoHooHoooooHoooHoooooo
D
Investing in munitions
G
And those little cotton flags
C
Invest in wooden caskets
AmGEm
In guns and body bags, guns and body bags
C
Your daddy was a businessman
Am
And it always made good sense
Em
You know the war can make you rich my friend
Dsus2/F#G
In dollars, pounds and cents
AmC
In the temple that was Mammon's
Em
You were ordained the parish priest
AmC
Yes you may win this coming battle
Em
But could you tolerate the peace?
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OoHooHoooooHoooHoooooo
DGCAm
OoHooHoooooHoooHoooooo
D
Invest in deadly weapons
G
And those little cotton flags
C
Invest in wooden caskets
Am
In guns and body bags
D
You're invested in oppression
G
Investing in corruption
C
Invest in every tyranny
AmGEm
And the whole world's destruction
GEm
I imagine there's a future
GEm
When all the earthly wars are over
GEm
You may find yourself just standing there
GEm
On the white cliffs of Dover
GEm
You may ask, what does it profit a man
GEm
To gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his soul?
GEm
Is that your body you see on the rocks below
GEm
As the tide begins to roll?
AmC
And you invested in this prison
Em
From which you never got released
AmC
You may have won this war we're fighting
DGCAm
But would you tolerate the peace?
DGCAm
OoHooHoooooHoooHoooooo
D
There's a war on our democracy
G
A war on our dissent
C
There's a war inside religion
C
And what Jesus might have meant
D
There's a war on mother nature
G
A war upon the seas
C
There's a war upon the forests
C
On the birds and the bees
D
There's a war on education
G
A war on information
C
A war between the sexes
C
And every nation
D
A war on our compassion
G
A war on understanding
C
A war on love and life itself
AmCAmC
It's war that they're demanding
GEmGEmGEm
Make it easy on yourself
GEm
And don't do nothing
EADGBE
Am....... -02210
C ....... -32010
D........ --0232
Dsus2/F#. 2-023-
G........ 230033